Sedalia Weekly Conservator

Sedalia Weekly Conservator. SEDALIA, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, JULY 22 1904. George R. Smith College. Departments College, Academic, Normal, Commercial. Art. Music, Elocution @ Industrial. CATALOGS FREE. Fall term opens Sept. 20. L. Lowe, D. D. Ph. D., Pres. Sedalia, Mo. Christian School. Expenses Low. Institute. For Colored Youth. A High-Grade Christian S Thorough Instruction, Expenses Lo Lincoln Institute. Missouri State School For Colore A High-Grade Christian School. Thorough Instruction. Expenses Low. --- College, Normal, Industrial, Domestic. COURSES— Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal Model Training School, Music, (Instrument Drawing, (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Car working, Blacksmithing, Machinery, Shoe-making and Gardening, Printing, Typewriting, Sewing, Laundering. ADVANTAGES— Good Location, Free Tuition, New Do Modern Improvements, Buildings Heated by S are licenses to teach in any public school in the TERM begins on Monday, Sept., 5th. reasonable. A few deserving students secure they can earn their way. For Catalogues write to BENJARN FRANKLIN PRESIDENT. Jefferson City, Mo. The Fourth of Aug latory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Music, (Instrumental, Vocal), Mechanical), Carpentry, Wood-inery, Shoe-making, Farming, Writing, Sewing, Cooking and tion, New Dormitories with girls Heated by Steam, Diplomas the school in the state. Sept., 5th. BOARD very students secure work by which MAGNUS FRANKLIN ALLEN, A. M., , Mo. ne of August Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal Model, Training School, Music, (Instrumental, Vocal), Drawing, (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Woodworking, Blacksmithing, Machinery, Shoe-making, Farming and Gardening, Printing, Typewriting, Sewing, Cooking and Laundering. ADVANTAGES Good Location, Free Tuition, New Dormitories with Modern Improvements, Buildings Heated by Steam, Diplomas are licenses to teach in any public school in the state. TERM begins on Monday, Sept., 5th. BOARD very reasonable. A few deserving students secure work by which they can earn their way. For Catalogues write to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN, A. M., PRESIDENT. Jefferson City, Mo. GREATER THAN ALL ITS PREDECESSORS. THREE GREAT ORATORS TO President Benjamin F. Allen, A. M. Lit tute, Jefferson City, Mo., President Inma A M., Normal and Industrial College, Okla., and the Hon. George H. White, ex man, Washington, D. C. : : : Greatest Display of NEGRO INTELLIGENCE ted in Central Missouri. MUSIC BY QUEEN CITY CORNET Reduced Rates All railroads entering Sedalia will give For further particulars, address Phillips, or W. H. Huston, Manager RATORS TO SPEAK. Allen, A. M. Lincoln Insti- President Inman E. Page, Instrial College, Langston, Le H. White, ex-congress- : : : : : : INTELLIGENCE Ever Congrega- l Missouri. CITY CORNET BAND. ... ES Sedalia will give rates lars, address H. G. ston, Managers ..... President Benjamin F. Allen, A. M. Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Mo., President Inman E. Page, A M., Normal and Industrial College, Langston, Okla., and the Hon. George H. White, ex-congressman, Washington, D. C. : : : : : : Greatest Display of NEGRO INTELLIGENCE Ever Congregated in Central Missouri. All railroads entering Sedalia will give rates For further particulars, address H. G. Phillips, or W. H. Huston, Managers..... Sedalia Represented at Lincoln Institute Summer School. Misses Estelle Martin and Alice Holmes, two of Sedalia's most highly cultured young women are in attendance the Lincoln Institute Summer School, at Jefferson City. They, we are sure will represent the Pettis County teachers typically and we trust that their action, this year, may be the cause of others going to this great Normal Summer School that is so ably and advantageously conducted by Pres. Allen and other courageous helpers. We miss these young ladies but feel happy to see them act so wisely. Private, R. Sanders, was called out on his car Monday night, after a long spell of resting and fishing. Little Miss Cecil, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Sanders, who was confined to her bed with fever, is convalescent. --- VOL. 11. GERMANETO THE PRESENT ISSUES. Excerpt From a Speech of De Congress in Write North Carolina in the House of Representatives at Washington, D. C. A Individually, and so far as my race is concerned, I care but little about the reduction of Southern representation, except in so far as it becomes my duty to aid in the proper execution of all the laws of the land in whatever sphere in which I may be placed. Such reduction in representation, it is true, would make more secure the ins alliment of the great Republican party in power for many years to come in all of its branches, and at the same time enable that great party to be able to dispose with the further support of the loyal Negro vote; and I might here parenthetically state that there are some members of the Republican party to-day—"lily whites," if you please—who, after receiving the unalloyed support of the Negro vote for over thirty years, now feel that they have grown a little too good for association with him politically, and are disposed to duff up him overboard. I am glad to observe, however, that this class constitutes a very small percentage of those to whom we have always looked for friendship and protection. I wish to quote from another Southern gentleman, not so young as my other friends, and who always commands attention in this House by his wit and humor even though his speeches may not be elifying and instructive. I refer to Mr. Otey, of Virginia, and quote from him in a recent speech on this floor, as follows: Justice is merely relative. It can exist between equals. It can exist among homogenous people. Among eq al—among heterogeneous people—it never has its own, in the very nature of this g, is never will obtain. It can exist among hosts, but between lions and lambs, never. If justice were also une, I consist of necessity-perish. Open his ponderous jaws and flub the strong teeth which God has made expressly to chew lamb's flesh! When the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals shall overcome this difficulty, men may hope to settle the race question along sentimental lines, not sooner. These thoughts on the Negro question, and it was after I heard the g woman from North Carolina, and after the introduction of the Crumpler bill, that they ousted me peculiarly appropriate. DEPA. TMENTS— I am wholly at sea as to just what Mr. Otley had in view in advancing the thoughts contained in the above quotation, unless he wishes to extend the simile and apply the lion as a white man and the Negro as a lamb. In that case we gladly accept the comparison, for of all animals known in God's creation the lamb is the most offensive, and has been in all ages held up as a badge of innocence. But what will my good friend of Virginia do with the Bible, for God says that He created all men of one flesh and blood? Again, we insist on having one race—the lion clothed with great strength, vicious, and with destructive propensities, while the other is weak, good natured, inoffensive, and useful—what will he do with all the heterogeneous intermediate animals, ranging all the way from the pure lion to the pure lamb, found on the plantations of every Southern State in the Union? I regard his borrowed thoughts, as he admits they are, as very inaptly applied. However, it has perhaps served the purpose for which he intended it—the attempt to show the inferiority of the one and the superiority of the other. I fear I am giving too much time in the consideration of these personal comments of members of Congress, but I trust I will be pardoned for making a passing reference to one more gentleman—Mr. Wilson of South Carolina—who, in the early part of this month, made a speech some parts of which did great credit to him, showing, as it did, capacity for collating, arranging, and advancing thoughts of others and of making a pretty strong argument out of a very poor case. If he had stopped there, while not agreeing with him, many of us would have been forced to admit that he had done well. But his purpose was incomplete until he dragged in the reconstitution days and held up to scorn and ridicule the few ignorant, gullible, and perhaps purchasable Negroes who served in the State legislature of South Carolina over thirty years ago. Not a word did he say about the unscrupulous white men, in the main bummers who followed in the wake of the Federal Army and settled themselves in the Southern States, and preyed upon the ignorant and unskilled minds of the colored people, looted the States of their wealth, brought into lowest disrepute the ignorant colored people, then hied away to their Northern homes for ease and comfort the balance of their lives, or joined the Democratic party to obtain social recognition, and have gaily aided in depressing and further degrading those whom they had used as easy tools to accomplish a diabolical purpose. These few ignorant men who chanced at that time to hold office are given as a reason way the black man should not be permitted to participate in the affairs of the Government which he is forced to pay taxes to support. He insists that they, the Southern whites, are the black man's best friend, and that they are taking him by the hand and trying to lift him up; that they are educating him. For all that he and all Southern people have done in this regard, I wish in behalf of the colored people of the South to extend our thanks. We are not grateful to friends, but feel that our toil has made our friends able to contribute the stinty pittance which we have received at their hands. BLACKBURN. Little Ocia Parker is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Jane Guthrie, in the country, Mr. I. Combs and wife were in Marsha! Saturday to the marriage of their daughter, Miss Mary, to Mr. Walter Wilson. We wish them a happy and successful life. Quite a number of you ng people from Sweet Springs attended quarterly meeting here Sunday, as also were Mr. Valetine and wife, and Mr. Howard and others from Mt. Leonard. The Free Baptists gives an entertainment at their church Saturday night. Mrs. Mamie Jackson, departed for K. C. Sunday. I read in a Democratic paper a few days ago, the Washington Times, an extract taken from a South Carolina paper, which was intended to exhibit the eagerness with which the Negro is grasping every opportunity for educating himself. The clipping showed that the money for each white child in the State ranged from three to five times as much per capita as was given to each colored child. This is helping us some, but not to the extent that one would infer from the gentleman's speech. If the gentleman to whom I have referred will pardon me, I would like to advance the statement that the musty records of 1868, filed away in the archives of southern capitals, as to what the Negro was thirty-two years ago, is not a proper standard by which the Negro living on the threshold of the twentieth century should be measured. Since that time we have reduced the illiteracy of the race at least 45 per cent. We have written and published near 500 books. We have nearly 300 newspapers, 3 of which are dailies. We have now in practice over 2,000 lawyers and a corresponding number of doctors. We have accumulated over $12,000,000 worth of school property and about $40,000,000 worth of church property. We have about 140,000 farms and homes, valued at in the neighborhood of $750,000,000, and personal property valued at about $170,000,000. We have raised about $11,000,000 for educational purposes, and the property per capita for every colored man, woman, and child in the United States is estimated at $75. Rev. A, H. Higgs, of Marshall, preached the Annual Sermon for the Masonic body, of this city, at the Free Baptist church Sunday. A large audience was present and was much pleased with his eloquent discourse. Mr. T. M. Baylor, of Mt. Morailh, was a pleasant caller to our office Monday morning, while in town. A Ramble. Saturday morning found us on our way to Mt. Moriah, a settlement near Sweeny rock crusher, on the M. K. & T. railroad. Those who went from Sedalia were Mesdames Wm. Williams, Francis Camel, and Mr. Robert Cowan, Peter Abbott came down in the afternoon. The occasion was a church picnic given by Rev. McTassel and committee, which proved to be quite a success and afforded us much enjoyment. We had plenty of mutton, chicken, and other refreshments, and we met many persons who took a pleasing interest in our work. Two games of base ball were played during the afternoon, the first was between Mt. Moriah and a mixed team of Smithtown Springvalley. The M T. M's beat the Smithtons so badly and by such a large score we refuse to mention it lest the Smithtons give up ball playing. The second was Mt M and Bell Air. he score for the five innings playd was 10 and 9 to Mt M's credit. The Mt. M's are a lot of big husky fellows and if evenly matched would put up a feirce gam. The Rw. M-Tassel, in his talk with us, admitted that he had not enjoyed the opportunities of school as ye writer, but aside from this he showed a spirit of leadership which would drive many of our so-called, learned ministers to the background. When one of his flock wanted to sign up for the Conservator, and called on him for assistance, he shoved his hand in to his pocket and loaned him wherewith to become a reader of what he claimed, "a valuable paper." We had success among his people, not with standing, the fact that this feild has been worked and buncoed by a Negro publication of Missouri. We secured, thru the help of Mr. C. H. Roberson (and a great boy he is) five new readers, viz., Messrs, Wardie Simms, F. Childs, T. M. Baylor, Jas. Simms and T. L. Holder. The last one named lives near Bunceton. The day being well spent and we, having finished our work, started for home. There being no South bound train until late Sunday morning, we took a North passenger to Boonville, and from there on the "Katy" flyer reachd home. While wating for our train at Boonville, we were frequently reminded of lawyer Paillips' musquito tale. Mr. Phillips says he knows where there are musquitos that can't be excelled for audacity. They would sit on the brim of his old cob pipe full of smoking long green, and every time he would puff smoke to shew away the pest the musquito would spit. En route to Boonville, we were pleased to greet the Mrs. Maggie Byas, of Bunceten, returning from a long spell of truancy to her good husband. I have wondererd how he met her Pit bet he didn't cry. Well, I shall close for this time by saying the Conservator ibein rapidly and widely circulated by its readers, the secret of which I'll tell when I come Central Missouri Conference will convene at Versailles, Mo., August 24-28. The pastors of the various charges are requested to be present and to urge upon each member of the district conference in your charge to also be present with written reports. Each charge and circuit is very urgently requested send one or two delegates to represent the Epworth League work. We want to revive the League work in the Sedalia district. W. H. Smith, P. E. NO. 12. COLORED WOMEN STAY AWAY FROM FAIR. Give Out Official Statement Telling Why They Boycott the Exposition. The National Association of Colored Women, who were to hold their second day's session at the World's Fair grounds Wednesday, met instead at St. Paul's A. M. E. church, Leffingwell and Lawton avenues. This was done in pursuance of a resolution adopted Tuesday abandoning the plans of the local committee of arrangements for Colored women's day at the Fair. In order to prevent any misunderstanding of their position in the matter, the following statement was drafted by a committee composed of Mrs. S.P. Vashon, Mrs. B.K. Bruce and Mrs. Williams and given out for publication. "It having come to our knowledge that certain of our race have been refused refreshments and other privileges at the World's Fair accorded every other, simply on the ground of color, the association, in convention assembled, passed a resolution to withdraw the decision to hold a session at the World's Fair grounds July 13, 1904." ---Ex. Dr. J. M. Harris and wife Complimented. Editor A. N. Johnson, of the Mobile Weekly Press, in writing the editor of this paper, has this to say of Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Harris; "Alabama has produced some noble men and women, and of all she has produced, none rank higher than Dr. and Mrs. Harris. They are of good ancestral stock." All this brother Johnson we have found to be absolutely true. In a generation since the civil war reading and writing among the Negroes has increased from 20 to 50 per cent, declared President C. F. Meserve of Shaw University, North Carolina, was addressing the Baptist Minister's association, and continued: "The colored people now own millions of dollars' worth of property. Since the war their population in the Southern States has increased from 4,000,000 to 10,000,000. You see, the Negroes are doing something and are worth working for. They are a true and faithful race." —Ex. Free Baptist Church Rally, Notes. Sunday was rally day, and each member was assessed one dollar and fifty cents each. Three harmonious services were held, and a good time experienced thru out the day. Those paying assessment are: Rev. E. D. Burns, sisters Nellie Anderson, Butler, Sallie Frisby, Carrie Powel, Sarah Mills, Ruth Jackson, Nancy Williams, Patsy Williams, brother Geo. Kaley, E. Johnson. Those paying less than assessment are: sisters Alice Jones, $1.25, Mary Jackson,—Bills, $1.50, Zula Jones, E. Harland, and Mabel Williams, .50, Lelia Jones, .60. Mrs. Nellie Drake and Mrs. Fannie Ragland, $1. Total collection for the day $50. At 4 p. m Mr. Henry Gilmore, and Mrs. Mattie Anderson, were united in marriage. Rev Burns, affiliated: Rev. Clay, of the Ohio street Baptist church, and some of his members were present in the afternoon. We listened gladly to his instructions. Zula Jones, clerk. Prof. H. L. Billups went to St. Louis on a business trip, Sunday morning, and returned Tuesday morning. He met several distinguished gentlemen, of our race while there. --- OLD SOLOMON SHANDY, of New York, Chicago and the United States in general, lit his pipe. "It's all right," he said, somewhat radly, to the group of crooks about him, "a superannuated has been, like me, here, may be out of business, but he's a darn good man to come to for advice. It's the man that's had the experience and knows the details that you want to come to in your great need. I know you chaps," he went on, covering with his hand a patch in his trousers. "If I wanted to borrow a few hundred off you, you'd give me the ley glare. But when you come to recognize the fact that all the crooks in creation will be at the St. Louis fair, and that you chaps will only be a drop in the bucket, and that you'll have to put your best foot foremost to keep your heads above water—why, then, you come to find out how to do it." He waved his pipe in the air. "I don't complain, you know. I merely state the fact." He drew a sharp inward breath. "Jehosapah!" he exclaimed, "there's only one man in this country that knows how to work the crowd at that St. Louis fair to beat the band. Just one man—" "That's me," suggested Mickey Walters, of the strong arm, with a modest smile. Shandy snorted. "You nothin'," he answered. "It's me—Shandy, as has made a fortune at every fair, and spent it free. If Lonly had the coin, like some of you chaps, I'd do that fair." He sighed. "But I'm out of it. I'm nothin' but a superannual has-been, and that's all." Shifty Shift, a man whose name indicated his nature, slowly changed his position. "Shandy." he said. "if you'll give us a few pointers, we might be givein' you a percentage on the fair receipts, after it's all over. That's what." He winked at the rest of the crowd, who gently smiled. "I'm a man of my word, you know." Solomon Shandy, sharper par excellence, shook his head. "I'm a-goin' to tell you anyways," he went on. "Just what the secret of success will be out there. Never before," he continued, leaning forward, his eyes lighting up with the old gleam. "never before has the FARMER VREDENBURGH. American public been so anxious to get something for nothing. Whether it's the Wall street craze or not, I don't know. But when you get out there with your faro cutffits or whatever game you chaps will work, there's one thing that you want to do—let the public win, and win well at the start. Let one man win and get away, and he'll tell a hundred. Let the second man win and get away, and he'll tell a thousand. That's the whole business nowadays. Let'em swallow the book, instead of just nibble, as we used to do. It's the same system, only on a bigger scale. Take lots of money with you, and let plenty of it get away from you at the start—cast your bread upon the waters. It'll come back to you all right. That's all. Remember it. I say it. I've read the signs of the times, and I can see that if you go into the business wholesale and liberal, you'll have all the other crooks skinned to death. You keep abide of what I've told you, and tell your friends, and this here New York crowd of crooks will wipe up the fair grounds with them western fellows. Now don't forget. This is the twentieth century—the business century; the century of method of graft that's big. And beside, it's the St. Louis fair. And don't forget." The New York crowd of crooks pushed this advice clear back in its cranium; it was good advice, and they knew it. Slowly and by devious routes they departed for St. Louis. There was Frank, the fickle faro man; Schley, the shell gamer; Mackercley, of the three-card monte game; Shiffy Shift, Barnabas Billington, the crook par excellence; Mikky Walters, and a host of others. And they went with pockets lined with goodly sums of money, for they knew that for every dollar laid out, a hundred would come back to them. And they took all the more because of Shandy's good advice. "Good-by, Shandy," they said on parting; "when we get back, we'll blow you off. We will, indeed." The New Yorkers worked in one corner of the fair grounds, for they wanted that corner to be an attraction. For a few days nothing happened. Then it was whispered about that a sleek-looking countryman from Green Village, whose name was Vredenburgh, was about and that he was worth about a million. and that he was the green as the village from whence he came, and that he was in St. Louis without his wife; which probably meant that he would be well stimulated most of the time, and an easy gentleman to work. He was a farmer, all right; for he had done his best to hide that fact. He had placed upon his person all the outward evidences of the urbanite; but a silk purse never yet was manufactured of a sow's ear, and this man, without a hayseed in his hair, was a hayseed beyond all question. When the New Yorkers looked upon this man they knew they had something superfine, and they remembered the advice of Shandy. They determined to give him plenty of rope until he hung himself. "What's this?" exclaimed Farmer Vredenburgh, siding up to Frank's faro outfit. "I've lived in St. Louis all my life, but I don't just know this thing." Frank solemnly cracked up the game. "Do—do I have to put up any money?" asked the farmer, in an uncertain voice. Frank shook his head. "Not unless you lose," he said. "I sin't a-goin' to lose," exclaimed the farmer. Frank didn't intend that the farmer should—not for awhile. So he started up a game, and the farmer won a dollar; another, and he won two dollars; another, and he won five. After the farmer had w u perhaps half a dozen small games. Frank concluded it was just as well to let the next game be a losing one for the victim and a winning one for him. "Now for another," he said. But the farmer, who had won every game, shook his head. "No," he answered. "I've won a whole lot of your money; blamed if I want to clean you out. I'll quit, and let you up. So long." After that he struck the shell game that Schley had going in a tent. "I'll pick out that there ball every time," he announced. Schley bet that he wouldn't. But he did, because Schley let him. Schley in all gave up $15 to this green-norn millionaire. Finally Schley waved his hand. "Bet you $50," exclaimed Schley. "that you can't place the little ball this time." The farmer dropped his hands. "Bet I can't either." he responded. "so I'll leave." And he did. But Ebbsmith, the envelope man, had an experience that was absolutely humiliating. Ebbsmith had not been so well heeled as the others, and when the farmer put up a quarter and Ebbsmith let him pick out an envelope with a $50 bill in it. Ebbsmith was tossing big bait over the side—big bait for him. The farmer pocketed it without a word, and went away. Ebbsmith followed him about all the afternoon, trying to get that $50 back by fair means or foul, but he couldn't make it. The farmer refused to budge an inch. Then the New Yorkers put their heads together. Day after day went by without the farmer's indulging further in the games which were to have proved his reason. They watched him for awhile, and found that he patronized all the other crooks upon the ground. So they concluded that it was time to act. Mickey Walters was detailed to waylay and rob him. Mickey started out to do it. He came back. "I can't find him," wailed Mickey; he's disappeared. I can't find him anywhere—that's what. Though if I found him—" Mickey swung a vicious fist into the unoffending air. "Say what—" The farmer, it is true, had disappeared. But he was not far away. For one day he bought a short lease on a little side-show tent in the middle of the grounds. Then he closed the flap and stepped inside. Then he disrobed. In five minutes Vredenburgh, the farmer man, had disappeared. And another man stood in the farmer's place. In five minutes the flap was open once more and the lessee of the tent was ready for business. Two of the New York crowd who passed that way stopped and held their breath. "Good Lord," they exclaimed, "if old Sol Shandy didn't get out here, after all. Shandy, hello! Who staked you, Shandy. What's the graft with you." Shandy mysteriously smiled. "I came out here to St. Louis shorn," he answered; "but, say, I've gathered in considerable wool." When the rest of the New York crowd heard about it, they groaned. "Gee," they said, "If Shandy's here, he'll get all the good that's going." Then an idea occurred to them. "Mickey!" they yelled, "get that farmer man and sick him onto Shandy. That chap'll have old Shandy cleaned out in just about three licks." WHITE FLOUR SELLS BEST. Tinge of Yellow Makes It Unsalable —New Bleaching Process Increases Nutrition. Nothing, declares the New York Times, has bothered the millers and the health faddists more than the demand among Americans for white flour. The whiter the flour the better it sells, and of late years flour that had the slightest tinge of yellow has been practically unsalable. Now, yellow is the natural color of flour, and in order to obtain the pure whiteness so much in demand the flour has to be submitted to a bleaching process, when the health faddists declare much impairs its nutritive qualities. This is not denied by the millers, who, however, are only interested in giving the public what it wants. An Englishman named Alsop has now come forward with a new process for bleaching flour, which, it is alleged, instead of impairing the nutritive qualities of the flour, increases them. This process consists of submitting the flour to the action of air which has been subjected to the action of an are or flaming discharge of electricity. Analyses made in some of the state agricultural departments show that ordinary untreated flour contains 54-1,000 of its own bulbs of nitrogenous matter, while treated flour contains 75-1,000. The Best Missouri News Auxioms to Live 100 Years. There is a pathetic little rural drama nearing its close out in Ten Mile township, near Macon. An old woman, the pioneer of the pioneers, is dying, within a few days of her 100th year. For the last 25 years it has been the ambition of Grandma Naomi Wright's life to round out the century of her existence. Recently it has been her one great longing, next to her hope beyond the grave. At her last birth anniversary, August 26, 1903, she urged her children to meet her without fail on her 190th birth anniversary. That she would be spared till then she felt as certain as that God answers the faithful. The children will be there, with hardly an absentee, but whether to attend her funeral or to celebrate her birthday is the unanswerable question. Those who have come from her bedside recently, say death's hour is gaining on the century day, now almost here, and will win the race. Case of Love and Devotion A case of love and devotion of the heroic type was brought to light at Chillicothe when a young lady, to keep her promise to her dead lover, started on a journey to Wilmington, Del., she being the only attendant of her sweet-heart's body. Miss Eva Purcell, a school-teacher, was the young lady, and Lewis H. Collins was the man for whom she was willing to undergo these trying duties. The couple had been sweethearts since spring, and were to have been married in the fall. The young man, hundreds of miles from his Delaware home, took sick with hemorrhages of the stomach. A trip to California did not benefit him, and at last he was sent to the hospital. During his last illness his sweetheart nursed and comforted him, remaining at the hospital night and day, but it was all of no avail. Located in Kansas City in '44. Mrs. Margaret J. Morris, mother-in-law of Judge E. L. Searritt, died at Kansas City at the age of 82. Mrs. Morris was a pioneer of Jackson county. She was born in Simpson county, Ky., in 1822. Her maiden name was Margaret Simpson. She first came to Westport in 1843. Returning there in 1844 she was a passenger on a river steamer that made the trip to St. Louis during the height of the flood of 1844. She returned to Kansas City in 1850 and married there. Her husband was Dr. Joel T. Morris, a pioneer physician of the early border days. During the cholera scourge of 1851-2, both Dr. and Mrs. Morris distinguished themselves in remaining when everyone else had fed. Convention Was Premature The republican congressional committee for the Eighth district met at Jefferson City on Friday, but made no nomination to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Robert S. Harvey, as it could not legally be done. Neither Mr. Harvey's nomination nor his declination can be filed until within 60 days of the election, and until legal cognizance can be taken of his withdrawal no other nomination will be made. He Defeated Henry G. Davis. John T. Vickroy, a Macon county farmer, defeated the democratic candidate for vice president, H. G. Davis, at the village election in Piedmont, W. Va., in the 50s. Vickroy ran on the democratic ticket and Davis headed the opposition. Mr. Davis became well known in Macon county as the millionaire politician who had been beaten for the village mayorship by Farmer John Vickroy. Will It Nominate Booher? The democratic congressional primaries in Nedaway county were carried by Charles Booher, of Savannah, a well-known criminal lawyer, who has long had congressional aspirations. The race in the convention will be very close between Congressman Cochran, Booher and ex-Senator Francis M. Wilson. Weat the Limit. The pretty daughter of a Cass county farmer offered four kisses to the farm hand who would do the most work in two days and before night three men had been prostrated by the beat. Estimate Large Wheat Crop The state board of agriculture estimates Missouri's wheat crop for 1904 at 31,000,000 bushels, against 22,194,000 'or' 1903. The acreage is 2,400,000 acres, three per cent, above 1903. Butler Is Certain of It. Col. Ed Butler, of St. Louis, in an interview at Kansas City, declared Joseph W. Folk is deliberately trying to disrupt the democratic party in Missouri. Trying to Beat Railroad. Frank Israel, of Joplin, en route from the Kansas harvest fields, was killed by a Santa Fe train at Hutchinson, Kan., while beating his way. Musical Director for University. Musical Director for University. Prof. Wilbur F. Starr, head of the music department at Nebraska Wesleyan university at Lincoln, Neb. has been appointed by the executive board of the Missouri university as instructor of vocal music in the teachers' college and musical director of the university. Will Talk It Over. Mayor Neff will soon invite a conference of the state officials of Kansas and Missouri at Kansas City to take steps for the prevention of food damage from the Kaw and Missouri rivers. Missouri School Appropriations. Pertaining to the annual apportionment among the counties of the state school moneys, Gov. Dockery made the following statement: The state auditor has certified to the state treasurer for the credit of the school fund, $1,098,378,82, being the amount apportioned for the present year for the support of the public school system. This distribution from the state revenue fund exceeds by about $55,000 the amount apportioned in 1903, and is the largest made in the history of the state. In addition to this contribution for the support of the public schools, the state pays annually a little more than a quarter of a million of dollars on account of interest on the state school certificates for the maintenance of the state university and the Rolla school of mines. Missouri are to be congratulated upon the steady increase of the funds set apart for the maintenance of our great educational system. Uniform System of Ordinances. Delegates from the fourth-class cities of Missouri met at Sedalia to agree on a uniform system of ordinances and establish a permanent bureau of information. The following officers were elected: R. L. Crews, Fayette, president; A. W. Squires, Windsor, first vice president; R. M. McCammon, Albany, second vice president; C. G. Goetz, Paris, treasurer. The citizens of Sedalia tendered the visitors a reception and banquet at Liberty Park hall. Jail Flented Down Stream. Cecil Patton, a young man from Smithville, was taken to police headquarters at Kansas City by William Warner, deputy sheriff of Clay county, and placed in the holdover on a charge of horse stealing. He was arrested in Harlem, but the Harlem jail floated down the river during the recent high water. Patton is charged with taking a horse and buggy from a Smithville farmer and trying to dispose of it in Harlem. Remove Big Missouri Cheese. The biggest cheese in the world is no longer a world's fair exhibit. The 4,500 pounds of concentrated odor was too much for the Missouri commissioners, who are said to have requested its removal from the agricultural building after a heated argument. It was claimed that in a building with a temperature such as is usually to be found in the palace of agriculture a cheese of such proportions was an impossibility. Wants Part of Brother's Estate. Alleging fraud and undue influence on the part of the executives before the will was signed and delivered, Nicholas O. Cline, of Frederick, Mo., has filed a bill in the circuit court at Chicago to set aside the will of his brother, George T. Cline, the millionaire real estate operator, who died about a year ago, leaving an estate estimated at almost $3,000,000. Bridegroom Kills Himself Robert Wilson, a groom of three weeks, committed suicide at his home in Hannibal by taking morphine. His wife left home at two o'clock, supposing that he was at work, and returning two hours later found him in a stupor from which physicians were unable to arouse him. Hatein Causes Serious Injury. Mrs. C. Robinson, while adjusting her hat on her head at Hannibal, stuck a hatpin into her head where she once had her skull fractured, and the indications are that the pin penetrated the brain. Mrs. Robinson has lost the power of articulation as the result, and her condition is serious. Dead in a Pond. Baird Dunlap, member of a well-known family of Buchanan county, was found dead in a pond of water near DeKalb. He had been hunting and may have been accidentally drowned while bathing. Friends say he occasionally was despondent and may have committed suicide. Walbridge's Strong Support. The solid delegations from St. Louis and Kansas City to the republican state convention at St. Joseph on July 27 will be for Cyrus P. Walbridge, exmayor of St. Louis, for governor. New Bank for Kansas City. J. L. Lombard, formerly at the head of the Lombard Investment company, will start a bank in Kansas City in a new building to be erected at 1017-19 Grand avenue. Fire at Moscow Mills. Fire broke out in a business block at Moscow Mills, and four buildings were destroyed, entailing a loss of $16,000. The fire is supposed to have been started by lightning. Made 20s Out of 1s. A "tall, cowboy-appearing" man raised $1 silver certificates to $20 and passed several of them on Macon merchants. Killed Wealthy Farmer. Philip Bermond, a wealthy farmer, was murdered by robbers at his home near New Burlington, ten miles from St. Joseph. Bermond's house was searched by the murderers for money supposed to be concealed there. Rock Island Renews lease. The Rock Island has renewed ror five years its lease of the Burlington tracks from Cameron to Kansas City. The lease includes the use of the Hannibal bridge and the entrance tracks into the union depot. CASTORIA For Infants and Children Dears The Signature Of In Use For Over Thirty Years The Kind You Have Always Bought THE GENTAUR COMPANY, 27 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. HE WAS WILLING TO PAY. But Was a Little Too Foremost in Ordering the Help Around. A lively looking potter stood on the rear of a car in the Pennsylvania depot. A fussy and choicer-looking old man clambered up the steps. He stopped on the platform, puffed a moment, renatates the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and then turned to the young man in uniform and said: "Peter!" Yes, sir! "You're going to St. Louis. I want to be well taken care of and can pay for it. Do you understand?" "Yes, sir; I hope—" "Never mind what you hope." You listen to what I say. Keep the train boys away from me. Dust me off whenever I want you to. Give me an extra blanket, and if any fellow has the berth above me, slide him over into another one. I want you to—" "Don't talk too much, young man. Here's two dollars. Now I want to get the good of it. Not a word, sir." The train was starting. The porter wag off to the platform. "All right, boss," he snorted. "I'm pown- t," he said. "I'm on my train, me talk, but I can't go out on that train." Of Wide Interest. Breed, Wis., July 18—Special-Chas. Y. Peterson, Justice of the Peace for Oconto Co., has delivered a judgment that is of interest to the whole United States. But briefly, that judgment is, "Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best Kidney medicine on the market to deal with." Peterson gives his reason for this judgment. He says: "Last winter I had an aching pain in my back which troubled me very much. In the morning I could hardly straighten my back. I did not know what it was but an advertisement led me to try it. After that I can only say they have done more for me than expected as I feel as well now as ever I did before." Pain in the back is one of the first symptoms of Kidney disease. If not cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills it may develop into Bright's Disease. Diabetes, Rheumatoid arthritis and the other deadly forms of Kidney Disease. Wrong House An attendant at Mount Vernon not long since found a lady weeping most bitterly and audibly with her handkerchief at her eyes. He stepped up to her and said: "Are you in any trouble, madam?" "No, sir," she sobbed. "I saw you weeping." " said she, "how can one help weeping at the grave of the Father of His Country?" "Oh! Indeed, madam," said he, "that's it! The tomb is over yonder. This is the ice house." - Indianapolis Journal. That bolt of lightning which struck a bunch of dynamite down in Georgia surely must have had the surprise of its life. - Indianapolis News. There is nothing a woman enjoys quite as much as the task of reforming a bad, bad man. Yet she seldom likes the tame result when she's successful. - Liverpool Mercury. Memory is a fickle thing. Drag a man from before a train and he will barely remember your face ten years later, but borrow a quarter from him and he will not forget you to his dying day. - Chicago Tribune. A writer of popular songs tells the Sunday papers that his method is to jot down meaningless words to fit his melody, and afterwards to substitute sense for the non-meaningful ones he will glad to learn of one who does this. so many song writers forget that last step. An amusing story is told in connection with the Marconi wireless telegraphy station at Poldwin, in Cornwall. A visitor to the neighborhood asked a native whom he met what those high poles were that he saw, and then them. Their Master Marconi's poles for his spacecissure wires." - Smith's Weekly. We know nothing more bideous than the things that are wrought by most silversmiths for prizes and cups. Racing cups, vailing cups, and the like, are horrible things, so that we shall soon say, not that such and such an act is as horrible as sin, but horrible as a racing cup, not that so and so, as the devil, but as ugly as a Jeweler's Record. Clarence King wrote from San Francisco to John Hay the following letter of introduction some years ago: "My Dear John: My friend, Horace F. Cutter, in the next geological period will go east. It would be a catastrophe if he did not know you. You will 'swarm in,' as the Germans say, when you meet. Last I should not be there to see you. I have a great opportunity to divulge to you that the police are divided in opinion as to whether he is Socrates or Don Quixote. I know better—he is both."—Chicago Daily News. CAST For Infants Dears The Signature Of C. H. THE GENTAUR COMPANY, 77 DOMINION EXHIBITION JULY 26 to AUGUST 6 WINNIPEG, MANITOBA THE BEST EXPOSITION OF AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES OF CANADA EVER MADE. An aggregation of attractions never before presented at an exhibition of this kind. Ample Accommodation for visitors. Low Railroad Rates from all United States points. Particulars given by CANADIAN GOVERNMENT AGENTS or NEAREST TICKET AGENT. PLAYING GOLF IN THE SOUTH Most Enjoyable Features of the Game Are Those of the Little Black Caddy. When you manage to bring off a more than ordinarily good shot it is a treat to note the expression on the face of your little negro caddie, says Country Life in America. This look of exuberant joy and pride and the triumphant glance at your opponent's "boy" is followed by a series of soft, melodious chuckles which only a darky can do justice, as to much as you must and he is done and done a trick, to the utter confusion of the caddies. Some of these darkies make good caddies, but the majority are too indolent or uninterested to be more than game and caring less. They tell a story of one—a novice—who at the end of the day's play, after cheerfully following his employer turmoil every bunker on the ground into all sorts of places on the sides, rather startled him by guillessly brow-hoo." G. A. R. National Encaiment, Boston. August 15, 2004. Very low rates via the Nickel Plate Road. A splendid opportunity to visit Boston and its many historical points of interest. Elegant Dining and Sleeping Cars served on every accommodation. Meals served on the Individual Club Plan, also "a la carte" service. Coffee wiches served to passengers in their seats wieneries to passengers. Stop off at Chattunauk Lake and Niagara Falls will be allowed on return trip. Stool Always Handy. While passing a pasture recently I saw a cow with a rope tied to her horns about ten feet long with a celer ball tied to the end of the rope. I did not know what it was for, and asked the owner of the cow. "That's me milkin' stool," said he. "I milk in the pasture and when I find me cow, me stool is always handy."—Bangor News. Very Low Rates to Boston and Return vie. Lake, Shore & Michigan Southern Ry Less than one fare for the round trip. Tickets on sale August 13, 13 and 14. Return limit may be extended to Sept. 30. Tickets will be sold via New York, New York, A. G. P. D., 189 Clark St., Chicago, or C. F. Daly, Chief A. G. P. A., Chicago. Evidences of Thrift. "Mrs. Mudgely is such a thrifty woman." "I know it. She worried herself nearly sick because her husband paid his life insurance premium. This is not good money lost, she complained, if he had died in the meantime." -Chicago Record-Herald. All Aboard for Boston G. A. R. National Encampment. Aug. 15, 20 in the Nickel Plate Road. Tickets on sale Aug. 17th, 13th and 14th, 94. Liberal return limit. Stop of at Niagara Falls and Chathamquake Lake. A special G. A. R. trot will leave Chicago $800 a. m. Aug. 13th. For rates, reservations in sleeping cars, etc. on local agent or address J. Y. Calahau, General Agent, 111 Adams St., Chicago, IL. Signs of the Times. "Now is the time to lay in your coil!" is the peculiar way a sign in the window of a Brooklyn store reads. Less ambiguity is the sign that says "I have a genius for advertising." It says: "Pants, 50 cents a shoe; if you buy two legs, the seat thrown in"—N. Y. Times. Don't Get Footsore! Get Foot-Ease A wonderful powder that cures tired, aching feet and makes new or tight short easy. Ask to ask for Allen's Foot-Less. Accept no substitute. Trial package FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Time to Watch Her. The Artist—Ab, she has such delicacy curves in her mouth! The Cynic—Did you ever see her cat cear off the ear?—Chicago Daily News. Fits stopped free and permanently curled. No fits after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Free $2 trial bottle & treatise. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch st., Phila. Pa. As a general thing when you hear of a girl who is said to possess a "chastic problem" you can set it down that she is tinnel and angular, and runs mostly to neck—Oshkosh Northwestern. I am sure Pise's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago. Mrs. Thos. Roibbine, Norwich, N. Y. Feb. 17, 1900. We hear much of self-made men: little of self-made women. And yet to judge by some women's faces— Indianapolis News. Better fail trying to do right than succeed in doing wrong—Chicago Tribune. 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The formula of a noted Boston physician, and used with great success as a Vaginal Wash, for Leucorrhea, Pelvic Cervix, Nasal Catarth, Sore Throat, Sore Eyes, Cuts, and all soreness of mucus membrane. In local treatment of female ill Parttime is invaluable. Used as a Vaginal Wash we challenge the world to produce its good for thermorex. It makes an in cleaning and healing power; it kills within cause inflammation and discharges. All leading drapes keep Paxxion, price for boxy, if you are small, not send to p for it. Don't write for the free box of Paxxion to do. PAXTON CO. For a Buz, Bassin, Massa THE WEAK SPOT. A weak, aching ack tells of sick kidneys, It aches when you worl. It aches when you try . to rest. It throbs in changeable weather, Urinary troublesadd toyour mivery. No rest, no comfort, uatil the kidneys are well. Cure them with Doan's Kidney Pills, \ Mrs. W. M, Dauseh- en ee ee when you worl. It aches when you try ; to reste. It throbs in changeable weather, Urinary troublesadd toyour misery. No rest, no comfort, until the kidneys are well, Cure them with Doan’s Kidney Pills. Mrs.W. M, Dausch- AY er, of 25 Water st., Bradford, Pa.,says: ‘Thad an almost continuous pain in the small of the back. My aukles, foot, sands and almost my whole body were bloated. Twas languid and the kidney seoretions were profuse, Physicians told me f had diahctes in its worst form, and I feared L would never re sover, Doun's Kidney Pilis enred me tn (805, and Lhave teen well ever since.” AFREE TRIAL of this great kidney nodivine which enved Mrs. Danscher will be mailed touny partof the United States. Address Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo, N. Y. Sold by all dealers, arice 50 cents por box, CUPID VEXES SCHOOL BOARD ‘Town of Melbourne, Iowa, Proves Good Matrimonial Market for Teachers, Young women teachers, matrimonial: ‘ly inclined, may find a good market for husbands in Melbourno, a thriving lit: tle Marshall cousty (la.) town, al- though it is certain that f thelr matri- Monial inclinations are known to the directors their applications will not be considered, — Ditring the school year Just ended the board of education of Melbourne has been up against the marriage proposition with a vengeanee and would like, If possible, to secure about three good teachers for next year Who can warrant themselves ab- solutely matrimonial proof Three teachers were employed at the beginning of last year, but before the term was more than haif out, one of the teachers, Miss Grace Reed, blush- Angly informed the directora that she Was going to get married and they had Detter Ket another teacher. The new teacher had no more than been In- stalled until another of the teachers, Miss Ethel Ogan, announced her en- kagement, and Informed the dlrectors there was another vacancy, Again tha directors found a satisfactory substt- tute and then belleved their troubles were over. But not so. The third of the original trio of teachers, Miss Emma Baire, handed in her restgna- tion with the announcement that she was to become a bride, Her resigna- {lon was accepted. It is sefe to say that hereafter young and particularly Attractive applicants will be looked upon with suspecion by the Melbourne e6hool: hoard. Where the Olive Oi1 Comes From, Spain reports w failure of the olive crop this year. If, besides this, re- marks the Chicago Tribune, there 19 a shortage In the cotton seed crop, the public may expect two separate and distinct boosts in the price of pure ol- Ave oll. Worse Than the Panic, ‘The singing of “Bedelta” stopped afire panic in a Waukesha (Wis.) theater the other night. But, asks the Chicago Ree- ord-Heraid, ts there anything that will atop “Bedellar” ‘Geld Gatndt Znarvesead. The Klondike gold output to June 20 was over $150,000 more than during the fame period last year, The season's out puNis estimated at over $13,000,000, RACE DONE? ‘Not a Bit of It. A man who thought his race was run mado a food find that brought him back to perfect health, “Ono year ago I was unable to per- form any iabor, in fact I was told by my physicians that they could do noth- ing further for me, I was fast sink- ing away, for an attack of grip had left ™my stomach so weak it could not di- gest any food sufficient to keep me alive. ‘ “There I was just wasting away, Growing thinner every day and weak- er, really being snuffed out simply be- eause | could not get any nourishment from food. “Then my sister got after me to try Grape-Nuts food which had done much good for her, and she finally persuaded me, and although no other food had done me the least bit of good, my stomach handled the Grape- Nuts from the first, and this food sup- plied the nourishment I had needed, In three months [ was so strong 1 moved from Albany to San Tranciseo ‘and now on my three meals of Grape Nuts and cream every day 1 am strong and vigorous and do fiftecn hours’ work, “1 belleve tho sickest person in the world could do as I do, eat three meals of nothing but Grape-Nuts and scream, and soon be on thelr feet again in the flush of best health like me. “Not only am I in perfect physical heaith again, but my brain is stronger sand clearer than it ever was on the old diet. I hope you will write to the Dames I send you about Grape-Nuts, for I want to see my friends well and ‘trong, “Just think that a year ago I was dying, but to-day, although I am over ‘55 years of age, most people take me to bo less than 40, and I feel just as young as 1 look,” Namé given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich, ‘There's @ reason, Look for the little book, “The Roa to Wellville,” in each pkg. OUR ZIGZAG RURAL ROADS. How We Got Them and How We May, to Some Extent, Improve Their Location, In the building of roads, the first ques tlon to be settledyis that of location, and it {6 a question of prime importance, {f the rond to be built is a new one, tho Problem of ication is not difficult to solve. ‘The principles which should govern the Jocation are simple, and they readily appeal to the common sense of all who are interested. ‘The roud Should be ag short and straight ax prace Ucable. If the country {s level, all that i neceseary Js to determine the points through which it is to pass and busld it straight from one point to another, But tn most cases the country is not level, ‘This introduces a new element, that of Rrades. Steep grades are to be avoided above all things, ‘The question then is to make the road as short as 1s come patibie with easy grades. Deep cuts and heavy fills are expensive, and should be avoided as far es possible. A wind- ing road seVen mites long with light grades Is better than one four oF five miles long, with heavy grades, Over the former, a team can draw a loud of two tons, abont as quickly as a load of one ton over the latter, The lecation of such @ roud is a problem to, be worked out With care and judement. The cone tour of the country must be studied and surveys and calculations must be mace. But when it comes to improving tho roads which are already Jocated, the dif- ficulties are vastly greater. In the first place In most sections of our country the roads have been badly located. In fact, they have not been located at all In the true sense. Many of them were originally nothing but cow paths, Othe ers were made by the early settlers {or their Immediate convenience, and with no thought of their fitness for high ways for highly organized communities, After the country became more fully settled and the land was divided Into farms new roads were generally laid ‘out*so as to run on boundary lines be- tween farms, almost wholly regardless of the contour of the country. Asa Fesult, the roads are not only crooked, but they involve many steep graces which are wholly unnecessary When It is proposed to correct these errors of location, the trouble berins, Farmors have built thelr houses on the road, and they don't want it changed, Besides, they don't want thelr farms cut up. The local road officials wart (o Keep on good terms with thelr neleh- bors, and, therefore, Iack the nerve to make radical changes. And so we £0 on year after year throwing away money on roads that ought never to have been built | It Is likely that the errors of the past can never be entirely corrected, Rut & great deal can be done in that direc ‘tion, Many slight changes can be mace | which will result in great improvement, In this connection it is thought that great advantages will result from the adoption of state and national aid. ‘Ths first great benest that will result from the national ald plan will be the arous- ing of popular interest. The movement for good roads will become general, rath- er than local. The piecemeal methods of road improvement will give place te | larger plans. The people will get broad. er views. Local kickers who want ta ‘sacrifice the Interests of the whole com- . munity for selfish personal ends will be ignored, and many roads will be partly relocated, State and national ald will alvo ehite the authority from the lecal officials to the officia’s of the county, the state and the nation, and these will cooperate In adopting and carrying out general plans for Jocating and bullding roads for the best interests of all the people who arg to use them. A USEFUL DITCHING STOOL, Its Use Will Enablo You to Keep Your Feet Dry, Prevent Miring and Save Henith, Take a plank 15; by 8 Inches, 214 fect long. Nall it to two 2 by 4s of same length, and yeu will have a very Rood stool on 2A which to stand aS when itehing =< It will keep your feet. dry, eee Sree and yeu will have a very Rood stool oh AAA which to etand ae when altehing. E tt wi keep your feet éry, prevent miring and save health, Bore ‘8 holo uear one end, In which to ‘put a atick two feot long, to move It by.m- JOH. Catn, tn Farm and Home, Protecting Trees from Mice, Experiments by Prof. UW. tL. Mutt, of the Ontarlo Agricultural college, with several Kinds of tarred and felt papers showed that none was {njurions to the trees and all equally effective In pre= venting injury from mice during winver, ‘The paper Was cnt in strips about one Toot Joug, enoigh to go around the trees and to stand about one foot high. A pleco of string was used to bold the pa ‘per tn place ant earth was banked around the trees and to etand about ono foot high, A plece of string was ued to hott the paper in place and earth was banked around the boitem of the paper to keep the mice from getting under neath it, Wswr te Blan? Sele Bane | In planting pole-beans, first set the pole firmly In the ground, Let them ba four fect apart each Way, It pays to fix a few hills thoroughly. Scrape the soil away; fill With well-rotted manure, aad replace the soil, ‘This makes a slight ele- yailon, Plant six or elght beans around the pole; thin these down to threo of the best plants, The vines may nocd to be helped to get a start up the pole, ‘is them to the pole with a cloth or soft twine. Where poles are scarce, wifes may be etretched and thy beans planted two feet apart under them,—Midland Farmer. Fashions for Mademoiselle Fashion Notes from Paris ULY fs, without doubt, one of the prettiest months’ of the year as far as the fash- fons for mademolselle are concerned, since young peo- ple never look daintier or ae ke a ence eee ULY fa, without doudt, one of the pretttest_ months’ of the yer as far ae the fash- AN ions for mademoiselte are ae concerned, sine young peo- LAY ple never’ took daintier 0: more charming than they do In the cool white cotton frocks and the quaint, old-world floral muslins. So many delightful linen fabrics are to be obtained this year, too, In pale deli- cate colorings, that there {s an end- less choice of pretty materials suita- ble for young girls’ summer dresses. The dainty summer coat which is worn by the first figure of the two small girls who are sketched together is made in Irish linen in a very pate shade of Mlydeaf green. This color is chosen rather than white, since it og ofS Bee eo EA jee Z “gy vei (ies Kb hie By AS ate Tage My ec i ; DBM In \ as, Zia Ma Ss BA BLUMMER MODES FOR LITTLE GIRLS, shes not soll so quickly, while it also Washes exceedingly well, and does not fade as soon as the similarly pale shades of blue, pink and heliotrope, 80 often used for children’s coats and frocks, although it must be confessed that they are all of them equally pret- ty and becoming. The neat Itile coat which we Illustrate is quite simply trimmed with a number of rows of fine white stitching down the front and round the hem, as well as on the cuffs, ‘The coat fastens over on one side, with large buttons of pale green bone, while for smart occasions it is provid- ed with a collar of white Valenciennes Jace and insertion, finished in front with a bow of sift white washing silk ‘The shady summer hat 1s made of the Same green linen asthe coat, and fine- ly stitched. Tt is trimmed with a wide scart of white soft silk ribbon, spotted with green, and Ued in a very large double pow in front. ‘The other little girl wears rather 3 smarter kind of costume, suitable for Sunday best, or even as a dress for a very youthful bridesmaid or train- bearer at a summer wedding. ‘The frock is carried out entirely in white embroidered muslin, and made up over a blip of pate blue pongeo silk. Two flounces of open-work embroidery form the skirt, while the embroidered | sleeves are very prettily plaited on the shoulders, and again at the wrlats | There Is a deep cape collar of the #ame | embroidery, with @ wide band of ens | broidered muslin down the center oi | the bodice in front. ‘The ilttle chem! solte 18 of white muslin, crossed by | bands of insertion. The sash, which ts ‘ted very low in the waist, is of for- get-me-not blue soft silk, while the vain Duteh bonnet is also of white ‘embroidered muslin, lined with pale “bite silk. It i# turned off the face in front, and finished on either sid® with |elusters of forget-me-nots, The bonnet strings are of pale blue ribbon. Something very smart indeed for mademoiselle in the way of a picture frock is shown in our other {lustra: tion. Although the effect 18 50. de. Hightfully original, the style of th dress {8 really perfectly simple. ‘th material should be either a soft flora muslin, or a delaine, patterned —witt tiny pink rosebuds. The skirt is mad very full and plaited into tho wais, where it Js finished with a deep bel of soft leaf-green Loulsine silk rib: | ton. Near the hem there is a vers pretty trellis-work of the same Kind 0 leaf-green ribbon, but in a narrowel width, fastened just where the lines o TP ee FEE. om ei oa oe PING log PN Cedi Be %% : ine all tise 1 \\ RNS aS RE ee \ Se * \f Pha “ea be Cast qa al ANIS.-There is rather a Z fancy for the softer fabries @ = again, and satin messaline and erepe de chine are ) ranning taffetas very close (°Y in popularity. One of the prettiest mixtures of the moment Is white embroidered linon de aolo, finest whily cambric and Valen- ciennes lacu. | White muslin and lace are de rigu- cur hore at the moment, and white trellis-work cross . ete other, with small pink roses, made in ehiffon. Similar litle roses are also nsed upon the fully-draped sleeves to catch up the fulness along the inner side of the arm, while they appear again upon ‘the front of the bodice, where the trel- lis-work idea 1s repeated in a slightly different way. In this case, the leaf- green ribbon is folded and drawn round the shoulders fichu fashion, b. fore being arranged in trellis form in front, Between the folds of ribbon ow the bodice, the muslin is finely tucked, while the bodice i# prettily finshed with a high neck-band and a little chemisette of transparent ecru lace. In white or ecru spotted muslin, thie would be a pretty frock made up over a color, while the same idea might be suitably carried out in figured net or embroidered muslin made up over a colored silk foundation. The hat which 4s sketched with this dainty musiin frock is of pale tan-colored Leghorn, with a wide band of biack velvet rib- bon, folded round the high crown, and clusters of full white ostrich plumes, arranged to droop over on to the brim in front, . The craze for picture frocks and ple- ture hats, so characteristic at the mo- ment of the fashions for madame, will naturally find an echo in the modes for mademoiselle, and in the ease of young girls this vogue is one which opens up various interesting possibilittes. Num- bers of old prints and engravings, as well as family portraits and the works by old masters can all be pressed into service, and will be found to offer in- numerable suggestions for picture frocks for young people. Sweet simplicity is the keynote of the summer hats for mademoiselle, and seldom have the fashions been prettier in this respect than they are this year, For quite little girls, noth- ing {s nicer than the demure and sen- ad oR i eeaN sity Mey) iy tj Sil , fii Mrs i ti fi WRC AARA Wee Sea a Aig bonty A PICTURE FROCK IN FLORAL MUBs LIN, sibly shady mushroom shapes, made in a good strong straw of sunburnt coloring, and sufficiently substantial to afford a real protection to the head, ‘Two different kinds of trimming are dividing the honors as far as the mushvoom hats are concerned. ‘The one consists of a very full ruche of soft silk ribbon frayed out at the edges and arranged quite formally, in double box-platts all the way round the crown, The other is undoubtedly prettier, but rather more difficult to arrange, as {t 8 composed of three or four choux of ribbon, silk or muslin, made in graduated sizes, and grouped round the front of the bat, while soft folds of the same material aro draped round the back of the crown, ELLEN O2MONDE. | taffeta mousseline can be admirably mixed with cambric and lace, The Henri II, sleeves are a featurs of the best ploturesque frocks of the /momen’. Diaphonows fabrics of all ‘kinds must, of course, be used, Buc ‘though we are in the midst of yolum- inous masses of drapery, beautiful lace ‘and embroldered muslins, we daily hear rumors from Vienna that the plainest of tailor-made costumes will shortly be in yogue, Tho leading Americans have already appeared {a coats made with small close-ftting sleeves, over the most gevere-looking blouses, almost like bodices, The old haniteoa, with a small basque is, 1 hear, to be revived, It 18, of eourse, | only the first-cinss taflor and the wo- Iman possessed of @ really good figure | who should attempt these plain tole | lettes, | But for the moment he muslin, | taffeta, Hinons de sic, and such lke “ethereal fabrics hold thelr own, and ‘the picturesque motes will remain | with us until we adopt the cloths and serges of the autumn, Hyerything tx boulllonnes, gauged and appliaue, Quaint cross-over pele- rine offects are arrived at by the soft fichu or by piped platings. These are in keeping with the lines of the shirt, | and the Henri IL. sleeve, Curlausly ati are the oli-faghioned kiltings ‘though the fabrics mostly used are | ott, and there 1s generally a little | chemisette of lace or embrotdered mus- lin, The same applies to ruches, whieh are made in every variety, Mustin and Vglenciennes can stand any | amount of plaiting aud ruching, Q pny ec RAT Ea Df Shia ee a One teen ae ates Tee ee. eee eee eae a sy aot f acon Ma yi Pe 5 oS ne 3 Riga eh ee va a a Raketes ee 5 & gents KE eee SI RSS Pe ed PS ae Ste ce <2 ING ee ets cas wry RS Bye Aer, Pree Ny essere kc! Boe Boek ¥ eh ‘ Pee anor rN SENS: sa > aN bc, Pe aN — Pe | ON | ot NE NGA OY —™ Miss Alice M. Smith, of Minneapolis, | Minn., tells how woman's monthly suffering | may be quickly and permanently relieved a if ; ’ Lydia E, Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. “Dean Mns, Pryeiax:—T have never before given my endorse- ment for any medicine, but Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound has added so much to my life and happiness that I feel Hko Making an exception fn this ease. For two years every month 1 would, have tivo days of severe pain and could find no relief, but one day when. | visiting a friend I run across Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound, —she had used it with the best results and advised me to try it, Tfound that it worked wonders with me; I now experience no pain and only had to use a few bottles to bring about this wonderful change, I use it occasionally now when I am exceptionally tired or worn out.”— Miss Atice M. Surru, 804 Third Ave, South Minneapolis, Minn., Chair- inan Executive Committee Minneapolis Study Club. TKeauty and strength in women vanish cane in life because of monthly pain or some menstrual irregularity. Many suffersilently and see their best gifts fade away. Lydia EB. 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